Top 500 Agatha Christie Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.”

— Agatha Christie

52. “Success had its penalties.”

— Agatha Christie

53. “You agree – I’m sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.”

— Agatha Christie

54. “Everyone likes talking about himself. – Hercule Poirot.”

— Agatha Christie

55. “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”

— Agatha Christie

56. “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.”

— Agatha Christie

57. “Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

— Agatha Christie

58. “With method and logic one can accomplish anything.”

— Agatha Christie

59. “If you’ve had a happy childhood, nobody can take that away from you...”

— Agatha Christie

60. “One must make one’s own mistakes.”

— Agatha Christie

61. “It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”

— Agatha Christie

62. “You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

— Agatha Christie

63. “It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”

— Agatha Christie

64. “Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.”

— Agatha Christie

65. “Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.”

— Agatha Christie

66. “No,” said Miss Marple. “You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.”

— Agatha Christie

67. “Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

— Agatha Christie

68. “Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.”

— Agatha Christie

69. “I didn’t want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.”

— Agatha Christie

70. “But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.”

— Agatha Christie

71. “Wherever there is human nature, there is drama. But – it is not always just where you think it is. Remember that.”

— Agatha Christie

72. “Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.”

— Agatha Christie

73. “If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.”

— Agatha Christie

74. “An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.”

— Agatha Christie

75. “The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”

— Agatha Christie

76. “Oh, I’m not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it’s very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they’ve taken away everything you had in the world?”

— Agatha Christie

77. “If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.”

— Agatha Christie

78. “We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.”

— Agatha Christie

79. “What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.”

— Agatha Christie

80. “With thought, all problems can be resolved.”

— Agatha Christie

81. “The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.”

— Agatha Christie

82. “If anyone is really determined to lend you a book, you never can get out of it!”

— Agatha Christie

83. “Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it’s the tops.”

— Agatha Christie

84. “Love is not everything, Mademoiselle,′ Poirot said gently. ‘It is only when we are young that we think it is.”

— Agatha Christie

85. “In my end is my beginning – that’s what people are always saying. But what does it mean?”

— Agatha Christie

86. “In my experience, people who go about looking for trouble usually find it.”

— Agatha Christie

87. “All life is a jest, Imhotep – and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.”

— Agatha Christie

88. “Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.”

— Agatha Christie

89. “Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he’s in love with her.”

— Agatha Christie

90. “I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty – to one’s friends and one’s family and one’s caste.”

— Agatha Christie

91. “Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.”

— Agatha Christie

92. “Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”

— Agatha Christie

93. “One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.”

— Agatha Christie

94. “If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.”

— Agatha Christie

95. “I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.”

— Agatha Christie

96. “Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.”

— Agatha Christie

97. “But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.”

— Agatha Christie

98. “No innocent person ever has an alibi.”

— Agatha Christie

99. “Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.”

— Agatha Christie

100. “There was something magical about an island – the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world – an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: “I’m leaving my ordinary life behind me.” And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In.”

— Agatha Christie